Andy Warhol : Sexy Popstar or Buiness Automan

Yes, I will defend that in the morning, Josh. ;-)

Not only creating a perfect pomo person who did not mean anything and talked in outrageous bonmots. ( really it was an extension of the aristo queers talked about earlier cf Qunetin Crisp, Capote or Wilde)
But as well his "art" itself.

Look at the work: The elegant but emphamrael poloraids notably the lonley self-potraits where he is in drag.
The sick green Nixon meant for McGovern.
The shadow paintings,with their darkness and bright colors that seem to be a masterpiece of inflection and innuendo .
The time capsules with the trash of everyday life packaged and archived . That now looks like Feliz Gonzales Tores or Tracey Emin if they went to New York Cocktail parties .
The homoerotic sexparts series of prints photographed to be cold and formal, the cock as product like a Cambell soup cans.
The gun and knife series where the phallic objects that dominate our culture seem gelded .

Warhols potraits seem to be court portaits. Socialites want to be seen as fashionable (ie beutiful and blank ). If you look at Court Portraits in history they are all as rigid and unfeeling as Warhols.

There was weak work ( the oxidaztion paintings, camaflouge, last suppers) but i really belive the late Warhol was more interesting then the magadlene Marylins,bathetic Tragedies and corprate advertising.

As for his work as a draftsmen, its good, a bit cute, but he is no Durer or even Fischl.

CLASSIC.

Classic!

I don't know. You tell me what to say and I'll say it... just write it all out for me.

I have time paradoxes. Does the universe end or something if you kill your flame yourself or something?

It didn't come out all in one go cause my formatting fucked all up cause this computer is shite and I had to send it back in time to download MP3s, and... oh screw it. No one understands I word I say anyway. I'm going back to bed.

You know, one of my most prized possessions is the Andy Warhol Diaries book. I bought it second-hand for $9.99 and still think that was one of the wisest decisions ever made. It is one of the nicest reads to turn to when I feel like reading something light and refreshing. It's like a delicious salad for the brain to pig out on during summery mental meltdowns.

I wish to God I could have been able to meet Andy Warhol.

Happy birthday to the guy that gave celebrities a reason to dress up to rev up their Mercs in case of that prime photo opportunity at the corner store.

I used to be pretty Warhol-obsessed, but I've never read that much about his actual life. S & D: Warhol bios/memoirs?

what, are you the ian reise-police?

heh heh when I moved up from panhandler to art-handler I moved 30 or so huge canvases out of the Andy Warhol Foundation on the 7th floor into a big white truck bound for the Gagosian. There was one in particular that none of us had seen before and there was like this informal 15 seconds of appreciation by all staff within earshot. Like the others it was just black paint (or silkscreen) on a big white square canvas. Some were big dollar signs, or letters. This one was a side-view pelvic diagram of a man, showing all the organs, tubes, etc, but fairly roughly painted. And a similarly diagrammatic finger up the butt!!
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), April 13th, 2002.

fun Andyfact I didn't know before last night: first public showing of his "fine art" paintings was in Henri Bendel's windows!

departing from my usual razz-the-professors stance, I thought the talking heads -- mostly academic art historians & critics -- steered the discussion away from the usual gossip and made a convincing case for Andy as Artist. Even ex-Interview editor Bob Colacello was surprisingly ruminative rather than name-droppingly bitchy.

Oh yeah, I never knew Billy Name had a real last name!

The second part felt rushed to me. There was so much stuff going on in the Factory days that that whole time could have been stretched out more. It barely covered his life in the 70s and 80s at all. I think it might have been better as a 3 parter, though maybe his later career just wasn't that interesting to fill up a whole extra show.

Wow, Ondine really does/did resemble Michael Imperioli.

Got this :
Brazilika: Subtropical Sunstroke Psych-Out Vol. 1

Very nice indeed.

wrong thread haha.

Warhol thread revived by a random error - I think Andy would approve.

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/jock-art-andy-warhol-polaroids/?ex=1273640400&en=3ae390e5b6c112fa&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TM-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M123-ROS-1109-PH&WT.mc_ev=click

25 years ago, when I was in university, I probably would have dismissed him. As I get older, I realize just how a) central he was to the '60s (almost--not quite--on a plane with the Beatles, Dylan, MLK, Ali, etc.), and b) incredibly smart he was about celebrity culture. Everytime I'm confronted these days by a Paris Hilton, a Joe the Plumber, a Sarah Palin, a balloon boy, a Kato Kaelin, etc., I automatically think, "Warhol would have loved this." The PBS American Masters from a few years ago was fantastic. There's a segment where they document Warhol's reaction to the Kennedy assassination. It's so good, I end up playing those few minutes for my intermediate students every Nov. 22; it's a unique, and moving, and amazingly perceptive gateway into how that event transformed the world.

Oh noes, Billy Name negatives go missing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/arts/design/09billy.html

I missed bits of these, here and there, so maybe this cropped up, but I doubt it: one thing I would have found very interesting to address in these is the fact that so much of the work that Warhol's known for could be considered, by today's copyright standards, illegal. (Particularly with the more iconic Hollywood images, I kind of found myself wondering if the studios or the original photographers ever made any kind of comment on the art.)
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Well, jury's still out on this vis a vis the Shepard Fairey case, no?

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at Brooklyn Museum is surprisingly good. I mean it's obviously one of those underfunded small museum shows where they try to find a way of using a big name to bring in the audience but with easier to get, lesser-known works. But in this case it was quite refreshing to see something besides mao, elvis, madonna, flowers, brillo boxes, etc.

Warhol became sort of more expressive, if winkingly so, late in his career, turned more to abstraction, and painted jesus a good bit too. His piss paintings are also quite good (he urinated on some kind of metallic paint that reacted with the acidity of the urine) and prompt the thought that Warhol even pisses better than most people.

read about it, will go

oh, ha, I wrote madonna, meant monroe

Didn't Warhol actually get someone else to piss on the paintings?

Well he did get someone to do most all work for him, so...

Those piss paintings, though, are great.

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television."

is that from "from a to b and back again"? that book is truly great.

I feel like this belongs on a Warhol thread: Snoop Dog will be among the guests at Prince William's wedding. I find it extemely interesting that there were no pop stars at Truman Capote's famous black-and-white ball in '66--no Beatles, no Dylan, no Jagger, nobody. There was still that wall between those two worlds. (With people like Warhol himself in the process of knocking it down.) We're a long, long way away from that moment.

Saw a copy of his Diaries at Oxfam. Is it worth getting a copy?

Absolutely. It’s one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. It’s a priceless social chronicle as well as the best insight into Warhol’s psyche that we’ll ever get.

Should be noted that the first edition had no index. Spy magazine created an index for it that was then included in subsequent editions of the Diaries.

The index is hilarious in itself, and extremely useful for locating specific anecdotes etc.

I read a lot of it an absolute age ago when I got it from the library when I was textile design student. The memory of it that stuck with me was him aghast at how some of his crowd can go through so much speed when he feels like he's speeding off his head after a micro dose from a diet pill. And how it was the ruin of Andrea Feldman.